Wyrms

De: Orson Scott Card

Narrado por: Emily Janice Card

The sphere is alien in origin, but has been controlled by Man for millennia. A legend as old as the stars rules this constructed world: when the seventh seventh seventh human Heptarch is crowned, he will be the Kristos and will bring eternal salvation...or the destruction of the cosmos.

Patience is the only daughter of the rightful Heptarch, but she, like her father before her, serves the usurper who has destroyed her family. For she has learned the true ruler's honor: that duty to one's race is more important than duty to one's self. But the time for prudence has passed, and that which has slept for ages has awakened. Patience must journey to the heartsoul of this planet to confront her destiny...and her world's.

Wyrms is an Orson Scott Card classic, one of the novels that helped forge his young career.

©1987 Orson Scott Card (P)2007 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Another outstanding science fiction novel from the prize-winning author of Ender's Game....This is a fast-moving, absorbing story." ( School Library Journal)
"A wonderful, textured fable." ( Publishers Weekly)

Weird book

I just finished Orson Scott Card's Wyrms and I don't know what to say. This book pulled my mind apart. I liked and hated it the same time.

It was full of awesome ideas. I loved that. The heads in the jars preserved by alien lifeforms... awesome. The genetic basis of the story and the interaction of different species are compelling. Here is a book which is not about aliens attacking humans or humans attacking aliens. The alien life-form chose to mix with the human genes in order to survive, moreover, to produce a much more dominant new race. The memory-storing crystals in people's mind was also an excellent idea, especially because it could be passed to the next generation.

This being said, I almost fell asleep when the characters gave philosophical speeches to each other. Maybe I'm a shallow guy who easily get bored over deep philosophical thoughts, but my finger was itching to push the fast forward button. At some points I even considered giving up.

There are some very, I mean very disturbing events in the story. I already found odd how Patience dealt with his father's head. However the most awful thing was the mating between the heroine and the worm-like UnWyrm. Not only the act itself, but what happened right after that. I would have thrown the book on the ground if it wasn't on my smartphone.

Some of the characters simply irritated me. If I were the author I would have killed the fat woman character early in the book.

I still cannot decide if it was a brilliant or a very bad book.

Unique

Interesting concept. Card paints a unique sci-fi/fantasy world but it is his characters that shine. There is deep dialogue that revolves around plot. The narrations is performed very well.

Would make a cool movie

Didn’t appreciate all the religious overtones because I kept trying to compare it to Christianity but loved the adventure Card is displaying here. His endeavor to show faith and love in a true Sci Fi novel is pretty unique. Much better then some of his other works like Worthing Saga.

Great start to end

Yes there is an ending! You don’t have to commit to six or seven books to get to the ending of this story. Which is a good change of pace for some of the sci fi book series out there.

Not my favorite story from Olsen Scott Card

The plot of this story resembles other stories I have read where the hero travels for months to get to place very far away where the antagonist dwells. The hero and antagonist struggle because the antagonist will destroy the lives of the hero's people. The hero's side wins and life is better.

Wryms (worms) is well written but falls short of The Lord of the Rings (probably a bad example - comparing 1 book to 3 books.

however, I really did enjoy the story. the narration was very good.

the thing I liked about the book the best was that the hero, who becomes the planetary leader, make changes making the government more fair and having a leader with integrity who wants to do the best for her people.